New Durham poet to compete in LA film festival

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Feb 4, 2013 at 3:15 AMFeb 4, 2013 at 10:23 AM

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NEW DURHAM — Two video poems about American saints, Saint Katherine Drexel and Saint Damien of Molokai, will compete in the shorts category in the the 2013 World Interfaith Harmony Film Festival, an annual event observed during the first week of February in conjunction with the United Nations World Interfaith Harmony Week in Los Angeles, Calif.

The two films, produced by New Durham poet Mary Ann Sullivan, represent a new genre of poetry.

Mary Ann Sullivan has been crafting animated digital and video poems for over a decade. Her first animated poems, “Shaking the Spiders Out,” was published by the British Broadcast Corporation online: http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/poetry/ondisplay/ And her video poem collaboration with Russell Goings and The Manhattan Country School, “The Children of Children Keep Coming,” premiered in 2011 at the West Chester Poetry Conference, the largest poetry conference in the United States.

Mary Ann Sullivan, a long-standing member of the Catholic Press Association and member of the American Academy of Poets, is Associate Professor at Hesser College in New Hampshire. Her first novel, "Child of War, set in Belfast, Northern Ireland, was named a Notable Book in Social Studies by the National Council of Social Studies and Children's Book Council. She is the editor of The Tower Journal, an international literary journal.

More information about Mary Ann Sullivan can be found at: http://www.towerjournal.com/editor

On the web: The film screening schedule, and information about the films, can be viewed here: http://www.worldinterfaithharmonyfilmfestival.com/film-screening-schedule.html